The photography app King Camera for iPhone received a huge update today. It is jam packed with editing tools that cater to both beginning and advanced users.

I played around with King Camera for a big today, and, boy, does it have a lot of features. What I really like about it, however, is that the developers were able to include all these editing tools without making the app feel cluttered. Not to mention, the UI is just beautiful – and I’m a sucker for gorgeous UI’s.

Beginners will love to use the included 36 photo Looks, and IPhoneography enthusiasts will adore the powerful Advanced photo editing features.

• Infinite free custom photo looks
• One tap sharing
• Photo stacks
• Advanced camera features
  • Time-lapse & Stop Motion Animation
  • Full Resolution Photo Burst
  • Separate Touch Focus & Exposure
  • Big Button
  • Exposure Lock
  • White Balance Lock
  • Self-Timer
  • Anti-Shake Trigger
  • Sound Trigger
  • Photo Backup
  • Rule of Thirds Grid
  • Photo Flashlight
• Advanced video features
  • Separate Touch Focus & Exposure
  • Big Button
  • White Balance & Exposure Lock
  • Video Flashlight
  • Rule of 3rds Grid
• 36 amazing photo looks included
• Infinite color borders
• Awesome thematic frames
• 12 stunning photo textures
• 18 beautiful light leaks
• Advanced photo editing
  • White Balance adjustments
  • Exposure, Contrast, Shadows & Highlights
  • Saturation & Tints
  • 12 Textures
  • 18 Light Leaks
  • 19 Colorful Gels
  • Crop, Flip & Rotate
  • Customizable Vignettes
  • Borders and Frames

King Camera for the iPhone is on sale for $0.99.

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Quora, the popular Q&A social network, has just released their official iPhone app in the App Store. Quora for iPhone adds a new iOS-only feature called “Nearby” that lets you browse questions based on location using Google Maps.

One of the great features is Push Notifications, because you don’t have to constantly check to see who’s been answering your questions on the service. In addition, Quora for iPhone has a neat shuffle option that helps you discover new content you may not have found otherwise.

Like Wikipedia, Quora provides great answers on a wide range of topics — technology, movies, music, travel, health, law and much more. Quora on the iPhone gives you access to some of the smartest people in the world, right at your fingertips. Quora’s users have deep expertise and include authoritative leaders in dozens of fields.

Ask and answer questions on the fly, and search for questions in over 60,000 topics, including thousands of location-based topics

• Ask questions to get insights from experts
• Write answers to share your knowledge with others
• Keep up with the latest on topics you care about
• Browse topics near you to learn while you’re on the go

Quora is available for the iPhone for free.

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The Let’s Talk iPhone event is less than a week away and can I say it’s been the weirdest, most bizarre build up to an Apple event ever? First we got no new iOS beta event in spring, then no new iPhone at WWDC in June, then Steve Jobs resigned as CEO, and through it all we’ve seen everything from a rumored iPhone 4GS with no redesign whatsoever to a rumored iPhone 5 with a bigger screen and metal back.

Likewise with iPod touch. Will white be the only refresh we get, or will iPod touch also get an Apple A5 processor for AirPlay Mirroring, Assistant, and even better gaming? (Remember when iPod touch used to be slightly more powerful than iPhone?)

There are even rumors that Apple might be getting ready to severely downsize the existing iPod lineup as well (hey, they downsized the annual September iPod event to nothing already, didn’t they?)

So worst case we get a very incremental iPhone hardware and negligible iPod touch hardware update, with some admittedly very sweet new software features, and best case we get a super sweet new iPhone and powerhouse iPod touch, and maybe even a 1080p Apple TV thrown in for good measure.

If you watched iPhone Live last night — and shame on you if you didn’t! — you know Rene’s expecting the worst, an iPhone 4GS and no Steve Jobs cameo. For the record, it’s been 15 long months and I bloody well expect Apple to wow me not only with new features like iOS 5′s Assistant, but with some new hardware to boot. As for Seth… he got assassinated by Verizon before I could force him to pick a side so we shall see.

As for you TiPb Nation, what do you expect? What will Apple show us at Let’s Talk iPhone?

Picture Source: Giga.de (iPhone mock up)

During a presentation at Macworld Asia, China Unicom revealed that, as long and widely rumored, iPhone 5 will support HSPA+ networks.

Japanese IT news site “PC Watch” tells that, Research vice president of China Unicom, Huan Wenliang, told iPhone 5 will support W-CDMA based high-speed data transfer standard HSPA Evolution “HSPA+” (21Mbps) at keynote speech in Macworld Asia 2011.

While HSPA+ is really a 3.5G technology, T-Mobile, AT&T, and now many other carriers have been marketing it as 4G for a while now in order to compete with real 4G networks like Verizon LTE. (Turns out it’s easier to print 4G on a box than build out an actual LTE network, go figure?)

It will be interesting to see how an HSPA+ iPhone will be marketed by AT&T. Will Apple let them call it a 4G iPhone?

Source: PC Watch via MacRumors

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If you’ve ever felt that the 12 templates that come with Apple’s Keynote app for iPad isn’t enough, it’s time to take a look at Templates for Keynote. It comes with 36 templates and over 600 slides that can be quickly exported into Keynote for iPad.

Keynote users, this app is a must-have! All of the templates are beautifully designed and will help your presentations stand out. Not to mention, it’s super easy to use: just select the template you wish to use and select “Open in Keynote”. Within seconds, your new presentation is underway!

Templates for Keynote Pro is designed to supplement the basic 12 templates included with Apple`s Keynote application on the iPad. With more than 600 different slides the template collection significantly expands the possibilities for creating stylish, effective presentations. Templates for Keynote Pro features now 36 different templates, each of which provides slides for graphics, pictures, tables, diagrams, charts, quotes, and more. Themes are quickly exportable into Keynote.

• 6 different categories
• 36 diverse templates (from simple to sophisticated, from fancy to functional)
• Over 600 slides (Tables, charts, pictures, quotes, overviews, summaries, processes and much more)
• Quick look and support of fullscreen preview
• Super fast export to Keynote (all templates are optimized for your iPad®)

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Templates for Keynote is available on the iPad for $4.99.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Affogato: Learn about the exciting world of coffee right from within your pocket. Browse through over 30 different types of coffee and get to grips with the daunting world of coffee-shop lingo as well as master the major brewing methods. [$1.99 - App Store link

• PingMe: A new group messaging app that enables friends and family to message each other in real-time, no matter what device they use. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Metronome Plus: Offers a beautifully simple layout, incredibly accurate metronome engine, and robust feature set contained in an easy to access drop down menu. Created by professional designers and developers under the guidance of professional musicians. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link

• Fling a Thing: Simply fun game where the player stretches and flings cute little characters into the air to collect bubbles. When the player has cleared away all the bubbles they move on to the next level, climb higher, and interact with some really bizarre objects. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Retro Recall: An app that randomly introduces pictures of forgotten memories from the 1980′s to recent years. These memories can be a product, person, film, song, TV show or event from the near or distant past. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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FIFA 12 has landed on the iPad and it looks like an awesome soccer game with loads of features to keep fans of the FIFA franchise entertained for a long time. If you have an iPhone or iPod touch as well as an iPad, you can use it as a controller too.

LOVE FOOTBALL. PLAY FOOTBALL. Experience the action of your favorite sport like never before! Watch matches come to life with vibrant graphics, ultra realistic animations, and the most responsive controls ever delivered on iPad. Now for the first time on iPad, take your club to the top of the league table with Manager Mode.

• Trade players, upgrade staff, and scout for talent. Develop players and choose the best tactics to make your squad the team to beat!
• Featuring over 22 officially licensed leagues, 500 licensed teams and more than 15,000 players. Take to the pitch with superstars like Kaka, Wayne Rooney, Gerard Piqué, Karim Benzema and more. From the English Premiership and La Liga, to the German Bundesliga and beyond – dominate your league and march toward glory in 32 authentic stadiums.
• Capture the passion and power of the world's most popular sport with unprecedented authenticity. This is the deepest, most visually striking football title ever. Feel every thrill on the pitch with your heroes, anytime, anywhere.
• New control schemes let you handle the ball with greater precision than ever before. Master free kicks and penalty shots with full touch control. Get in the game with realistic 360° player movement and gesture-driven skill moves. Pull off defense-splitting passes, rifling shots, penalty kicks, and pro-style tricks.
• Check out the FREE EA SPORTS ™ Gamepad App. Turn your iPhone into a wireless controller for the ultimate head-to-head experience on your iPad.

FIFA 12 is available on the iPad for $9.99. It is also available for the iPhone and iPod touch as a separate app with slightly less features but at a cheaper price of $4.99. Be warned, this one is a huge download of over 1GB.

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Police in Shanghai, China have discovered a group of five people assembling and selling fake versions of the iPhone. Those arrested are thought to be part of an organised gang that were buying in parts from Guangdong in southern China and assembling them in rented apartments in Shanghai. Some of the parts being used are even thought to be genuine components used in the assembly of the actual iPhone 4. About 200 fake iPhones were found during the raid on the apartments.

The cost to make one fake iPhone, which used some genuine parts, was around 2,000 yuan ($313). It was sold on unauthorised markets and on the Internet for around 4,000 yuan, only a few hundred yuan cheaper than the real iPhone, the newspaper said. The fake iPhones had the same functions as the genuine ones but had a shorter battery life, it quoted the police as saying.

This story is not exactly a great surprise, it wasn’t that long ago that actual fake Apple stores were appearing in parts of China. They were found to be selling actual Apple products but were certainly not authorized in any way. China has often been criticized for its lack of control over pirated goods; which can easily be found in shops.

Source: Reuters, China Daily